Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields 2025

[Didinho]

Campi not breathing.

 

[Netserk]

They’re gonna be riders who want to make this race harder in the hill zone. The run-in and the steep part of the Kemmel will be hard enough if the good riders are pushing the front. I’m thinking Jorgenson and Pedersen will test the legs. Get rid of the pure sprinters.

Depends on whether or not Visma and Trek can make a selection without Merlier and Philipsen.

 

[Netserk]

Kooij far back.

 

[Didinho]

Pedersen strong. Philipsen really good in front. A lot of tired faces already.
Magnier is there.

 

[tobydawq]

Pithie smashing.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Jorgenson out of position but claws his way back on and made the gap

 

[Netserk]

Milan also gone.

 

[tobydawq]

Philipsen, Pedersen, Magnier, Pithie at the front.

 

[Heston]

Trek and Bora gonna regret not riding on when Philipsen was caught in 2nd echelon.

 

[Didinho]

Gonna be a group of 25 left from the peloton.
Even more. Groups coming back already.

Philipsen looks on a mighty strong day again.

 

[Netserk]

Don't think it will snap now.

 

[Brullnux]

Trek and Bora gonna regret not riding on when Philipsen was caught in 2nd echelon.

Trek did ride

 

[tobydawq]

Campi not breathing.

Doesn't sound healthy.

 

[RedheadDane]

Laurenz Rex in that direction?
Or "Laurenz Rex, you have to go that way!"?
Did he have a crash where he went off road?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pointless attacking if you go at the top of one climb then just stop riding at the bottom.

 

[Heston]

Trek did ride

1st group stopped riding completely and allowed the Philipsen group to get back

 

[Salvarani]

Split after Vermeersch attack

 

[Brullnux]

1st group stopped riding completely and allowed the Philipsen group to get back

They rode hard but they only ever got a 20s gap and it was just four Trek riders, including both Pedersen and Milan. I think the effort was there but the elastic never really snapped with the second group so they relaxed a bit.

 

[Didinho]

They know Brunel is in the break this time?

 

[tobydawq]

Don't think it will snap now.

It almost always does. The bend on that descent is really slow, so if you're sitting in 50th position you're more than half a minute behind the front. That deficit doesn't magically disappear when they reach the straight stretches.

 

[KZD]

Sad to see De Lie like this, another DNF

Milan and Merlier also didn't look good in the first Kemmelberg ascent.

 

[Samamba]

This is Intermarché's race

Both Rex (who looks really good) and Girmay in first group

 

[Salvarani]

Bunch of smaller groups atm

 

[Netserk]

It almost always does. The bend on that descent is really slow, so if you're sitting in 50th position you're more than half a minute behind the front. That deficit doesn't magically disappear when they reach the straight stretches.

The composition is not good.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nice dynamic edition so far